Louise McHugh

Lecturer

Louise's research interests are centered on the experimental analysis of language and cognition from a behaviour analytic and Relational Frame Theory perspective, including especially the development of complex cognitive skills such as as perspective-taking and the process-level investigation of behavioural and cognitive psychotherapies including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. She has published over 60 papers on these topics and has received funding from several sources including the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Waterloo Trust, the Welsh Assembly and the HRB. Louise is a Marie Curie Fellow and a Fellow of the Association for Contextual Behavioural Science.

Kosnes, Liv and Whelan, Robert and O'Donovan, Aoife and McHugh, Louise A (2013) 'Implicit measurement of positive and negative future thinking as a predictor of depressive symptoms and hopelessness'. Consciousness and Cognition, 22 (3):898-912. [Details]

Broomfield, L., McHugh, L. & Reed, P. (2010) 'Factors impacting the emergence of behavioral control by under-selected stimuli after reduction of behavioral control by over-selected stimuli in a simultaneous discrimination procedure for humans'. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 94 :125-133. [Details]

Research Interests

Louise's research interests are centered on the experimental analysis of language and cognition from a behaviour analytic and Relational Frame Theory perspective, including especially the development of complex cognitive skills such as as perspective-taking and the process-level investigation of behavioural and cognitive psychotherapies including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. She has published over 70 papers on these topics and has received funding from several sources including the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Waterloo Trust, the Welsh Assembly and the HRB. Louise is a Marie Curie Fellow and a Fellow of the Association for Contextual Behavioural Science.

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Evaluating the Antibacterial Properties of Polyacetylene and Glucosinolate Compounds with Further Idenitfication of their Presence within Various Carrot (Daucus carota) and Broccoli (Brassica oleracea) Cultivars using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography with a Diode Array Detector and Ultra High-Performance Liquid Chromatorgraphy-Mass Spectrometry Analyses
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